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beflag

American  
[bih-flag] / bɪˈflæg /

verb (used with object)

beflagged, beflagging
  1. to cover or deck with flags.


Etymology

Origin of beflag

First recorded in 1880–85; be- + flag 1


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The lead jeep of the convoy stood on the edge of the clearing with all the beflagged trucks behind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the green-decked, beflagged arch of the station entrance, down oak-garlanded stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambassador to France Arthur K. Watson pulled up in his beflagged Cadillac outside the Chinese embassy at 11 Avenue George-V.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music.

From Time Magazine Archive

I arrived back at Cetinje on the evening of the 15th to find it beflagged and rows of tallow candles stuck along my bedroom window for the coming illuminations.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

There is no escape therefore from this beflagging of a foreign holiday—and we set out with a homesick song of Nubia, which the boatmen sing to the cadence of the oars.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines

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